![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Mog, his treat, once he is feeling better, lands him back in bed again until Christmas. ![]() Swallowing the potion she has concocted for him, he undergoes a series of colorful transformations, but it is only when an x-ray spell is cast - "Baked boiled grilled or fried / Show us what's in Mog's inside" - that the cause of the trouble is revealed. Mog the witch's cat encounters some difficulties in this eighth entry in the Meg and Mog series, finding himself seriously unwell and subject to Meg's magical care. In addition to the MEG AND MOG series, Helen has a long and varied association with Puffin - as editor of the Junior Puffin magazine THE EGG from 1977 - 1979, as compiler of the popular children's poetry anthology POEMS FOR SEVEN YEAR OLDS AND UNDER, illustrated by Michael Foreman, and through her partnership with Puffin, the enormously popular series of Puffin Cover to Cover story tapes of which Helen is the Producer. The result is the immensely popular MEG AND MOG series. After working together for four years, they decided it was time to preserve their creativity in book form for future generations of children to enjoy. It was here, as Producer of the children's educational series WATCH, that she first met Jan Pienkowski. Helen Nicoll was a television producer with the BBC for many years. Helen Nicoll married Robert Kime in 1970 and they have one daughter and one son. She was educated at schools in Bristol Dartington Hall, Devon and Froebel Education Institute, London. I lead caravan" / "Very old bridge" - but leaving that aside, this was an engaging addition to the Meg and Mog series.Helen Nicoll was born in Natland, Westmorland, in 1937. I could have happily lived without the sherpa's somewhat broken English - "O.K. The scene in which everyone is lost in the fog - the two-page spread is entirely grey, with various speech bubbles appearing - is a perfect case in point, as is that in which the startled yeti is revealed in all his pink and red glory. ![]() As always, the textual and visual elements work together to create an engaging story experience. Like its predecessors, Mog In the Fog features a simple text, split between straightforward narrative and various exclamations in speech bubbles, and vividly colorful illustrations. When a thick fog descends during their ascent, Meg's spell to clear the mist - "Iceaxe, compass / Goggles and log / Help me, show me / Lead me to Mog" - reveals that the trio have inadvertently joined company with a yeti, much to their mutual dismay. Meg and Mog set out to climb the highest mountain in the world in this eleventh picture-book devoted to their adventures, enlisting the help of a sherpa named Tsing to get to the top. ![]() Helen Nicoll was born in Natland, Westmorland, in 1937. ![]()
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